Lake Pontchartrain
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Lake Pontchartrain is an estuary in southeastern Louisiana in the United States. It covers 630 square miles with an average depth of 12 to 14 feet. Some shipping channels are kept deeper through dredg
Lake Pontchartrain from southbound causeway entrance
Lake Pontchartrain's north shore at Fontainebleau State Park near Mandeville, Louisiana, in 2004
At the southern terminus of LA 1077 in Madisonville, this lighthouse is on the west estuary of the Tchefuncte River at Lake Pontchartrain and was constructed in 1837.
Lake Pontchartrain at New Orleans during Hurricane Georges in 1998; lakefront fishing camps outside of the protection levee suffered severe damage.
Louis Phélypeaux, Marquis of Phélypeaux was a French politician.
Lake Pontchartrain
…but only a slight one, as its passage to the open sea is narrow. The lake was named in 1699 by the French explorer Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville for Louis Phélypeaux, comte de Pontchartrain, a minister under Louis XIV. It connects to the Gulf of Mexico through the Rigolets strait and Chef Menteur Pass by way of Lake Borgne, and receives…
Portrait by Robert Levrac-Tournières